Löschau (Bautzen)

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City of Bautzen
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 195 m above sea level NN
Area : 68 ha
Residents : 30  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 44 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 02625
Area code : 03591
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Location of Löschau in Bautzen
Aerial panorama with motorway service station Oberlausitz

Löschau , Lešawa in Upper Sorbian ? / i , is a village in Upper Lusatia and has been the westernmost and smallest district of Bautzen since 1999 . It has 31 inhabitants and is part of the official Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia. Audio file / audio sample

geography

Löschau is located about 6 km northwest of the city ​​center at 195  m above sea level. NN directly north of the Oberlausitz motorway service station ( A 4 ). The Bolbritz water flows north of the village .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1363 as Lessow . The Löschau manor belonged to the von Rein noble family in the 19th century. For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 55 inhabitants in the 1880s; 53 of them were Sorbs and two Germans.

Before 1936, Löschau was part of the Oberuhna community , then initially to Schmochtitz . From 1948 it was part of Salzenforst (later Salzenforst-Bolbritz ) and was incorporated into Bautzen together with the latter in 1999.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Löschau

Web links

Commons : Löschau / Lešawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Löschau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. As of December 31, 2018
  2. Digital historical index of places
  3. ^ New general German nobility lexicon , 1867 (page 435)
  4. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 54 .